Labor category: 1449 books
by Ian Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
First published in 1976, Economics and Demography discusses how the world population doubled in the thirty years prior to its publication, and considers the economic implications of this demographic transformation.
Professor Bowen, with many years’ experience of research into the economic...
Beyond Macroeconomic Stability
Structural Transformation and Inclusive Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This volume goes beyond a narrow conceptualization of macroeconomic stability and explores the link between socio-economic policies, structural transformation and inclusive development. It rests on three thematic pillars: the limits of conventional macroeconomics; the long run agenda of structural transformation and the development of capabilities.
From the Great Recession to Labour Market Recovery
Issues, Evidence and Policy Options
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
This book sheds light on the impact of the Great Recession from the perspective of both developing and developed countries. It traces the complex and multiple causes of the Great Recession, delineates the diversity in the macroeconomic and labour market consequences, and highlights the effectiveness of policy responses undertaken so far.
by Gavin Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
This book mounts a critique of current health economics and provides a better way of looking at the economics of health and health care. It argues that health economics has been too dominated by the economics of health care and has largely ignored the impact of poverty, inequality, poor housing, and...
by Thomas J. Kniesner, John D. Leeth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
People want more from the government. One thing they want more of is a sense of personal safety, at home and at work (Regulation, Fall 1991). People also want the government to quit wasting money. The objective of having the government provide a safer life for us and our children at minimum cost leads...
Capitalism's Contradictions
Studies of Economic Thought Before and After Marx
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Collected and translated by Deutscher Prize-Winning Grossman biographer Rick Kuhn, assembles several of Henryk Grossman’s most important essays, and serves as an introduction to his project of recovering Marx. Grossman highlights distinctive features of Marx’s economic theory by contrasting it with the views of his forerunners, from Adam Smith to Sismondi.
by Roger Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Expectations, Employment and Prices brings Keynesian economics into the 21st century by providing a new paradigm that explains how high unemployment could potentially persist forever without a little help from the government. The book fills in logical gaps that were missing from Keynes' General Theory...
From a Market Economy to a Finance Economy
The Most Dangerous American Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In this gripping book, Dr. Samli makes the case that the US economy is shifting for the worse, tilting towards a finance-driven economy, and argues that investing in innovation will bring us out of the recession and back to a successful, market-driven economy.
by J. A. Hobson
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
First published in 1922, Hobson’s study of the depression and resulting unemployment in the aftermath of the First World War is a far-sighted analysis which looks beyond the consequences of the war itself, at the root economic causes of the crisis.
Dealing with issues such as the failure...
The Economics of Poverty
History, Measurement, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world's poorest have...
Disadvantaged Workers
Empirical Evidence and Labour Policies
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
This book includes empirical contributions focusing on disadvantaged workers. According to the European Commission’s definition, disadvantaged workers include categories of workers with difficulties entering the labour market without assistance and hence, requiring the application of public measures...
Social Exclusion
Short and Long Term Causes and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2011
The book provides a panoramic approach to social exclusion, with emphasis on structural causes (education, health, accidents) and on short term causes connected with the crisis which started in 2008. The picture emerging, based on econometric analysis, is that the crisis has widened the risk of social...
Young People and the Labour Market
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Young people are a vulnerable category of workers, finding themselves in a delicate phase of their working life: their first entry into the labour market. In many European countries, youngsters are unemployed or have difficulty finding and obtaining jobs. This situation has deteriorated particularly...
Pensions: More Information, Less Ideology
Assessing the Long-Term Sustainability of European Pension Systems: Data Requirements, Analysis and Evaluations
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Europeans are living longer, and fewer now remain in the labour force as they grow older. Many European countries have responded to the ensuing financial pressure by reforming their public pension systems and health care programmes. There is considerable uncertainty as to the effects of these reforms...